On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Simon Bakker wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 08:23, Daniel Hedblom wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I have a bit of a hard time with a Broadcom 5700 nic. It isnt supported by > > etherboot or rom-o-matic but there is a gpl driver on the broadcom > > homepage. Does anyone know howto add a nic driver to a running system? I > > must be doing it wrong somehow. Right now my boss keeps me between a rock > > and a hard place. > > > > Cheers! > > > > Daniel > > > There is a Broadcom 5700 driver available at the usual place :-) It is > also supported by the tg3 driver which is part of most of the kernel > releases i've seen. So a 'modprobe tg3' should do the trick. > The autodetect during LTSP/PXE boot is a different thing; for that you > will have to rebuild the initrd supplied with the kernel. > > - startup the 'broadcom' machine > - do a 'scanpci' (comes with X), lookup your NIC and note the number for > device and vendor > - download the ltsp_initrd_kit > - yank a tg3-line in the 'niclist' and replace the device an vendor ID > - rebuild the initrd and replace the 'old' initrd. OR, add the following lines to your dhcpd.conf file: option option-128 e4:45:74:68:00:00; option option-129 "NIC=tg3"; That will override the niclist, and should get you going. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > It worked for me..... > > Regards, > > Simon > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE > LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
